Morisaki Jushi co. Ltd., a resin processing company from Kyoto prefecture in Japan, recently started offering a new service called MARIAGE POUPÉE. They create original wedding dolls with a 3D printer and 3D scanner.

Morisaki Jushi named the service MARIAGE POUPÉE after French words for "Marriage Doll". There is no surprise that the service name works well in Japan, but maybe not so well in English speaking countries…

They make those dolls by scanning customer's faces with a portable 3D scanner at the wedding venue and combining the face with the existing chosen body design before printing out.

MARIAGE POUPÉE is a fuss-free service because customers don't need to take time to visit a store or submit their photos.

The finished doll will be delivered in an acrylic case with the wedding venue's logo, wedding date, and the couple's names stamped on it.

Price: 52,000 yen or more (A doll of a couple is counted as one doll).

This week nothing very interesting happened on Friday night. And then on Saturday night - which is now - nothing very interesting happened again. Except for gas-propelled cream splat face prank and, oh yeah, this Japanese company 3D-printed a working model of a jet engine. So there's those things that happened.

This week we've learned that Japan's formed a body to (very softly) police/advise on cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, Japan's 3D printing industry showing more and more life signs, and a relatively unknown powered exoskeleton maker is seeing some pretty cool progress!

Hong Kong's 3D printer producer, Makible, signed a distributor agreement with Asianet and opened an online store called MakiBox Japan for the Japanese market. They are going to start selling 3D printer construction kits at reasonable prices on February 20:

- MakiBox A6 LT for ¥34,800- MakiBox A6 HT for ¥46,800

MakiBox A6 is a semi-assembled 3D printer kit series with simple assembly requiring you to screw and clamp some components together and tune a bit.

Bonsai Lab, Inc. has released the reasonably-priced compact 3D printer BS01 on April 1.

In December, 2013, 3D printer BS01 was sold for 3 weeks only at the cloud funding site "kibidango". It collected the targeted amount of money after just 2 days, and reached about ¥10,500,000 funding in 3 weeks, an amount about 5 times more than their targeted amount.

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Maezawa Mold have been co-developing a wearable device, the Privacy Visor, to protect users' privacy from SNS facial recognition.

The Privacy Visor is a Google Glass-style device that uses LEDs. By illuminating a user's face with invisible light, it can prevent privacy invasion through surveillance camera-based face recognition systems.

Nakabayashi, Japanese corporation offering stationery-related products, announced that they obtained exclusive distribution rights in Japan to sell the 3D printing pen 3Doodler that the American company Wobbles Works has developed.

Another Non-Japaneses Manufacturer Enters the Japanese MarketBrulé today started reselling 3D printer "Ultimaker2" in Japan, manufactured by a Dutch 3D printer company. It is now available for ¥349,800 yen on Brulé's official site.

The printable area range of Ultimaker2 is up to 230×225×205mm. The minimum built-up pitch is 0.02mm. As an FDM or FFF printer, it is one of the 3D printers that has the highest accuracy.